Get A Room

Jesse

I exhaled, imagining the expressions on the stiff faces of some ballet directors. Yeah, I couldn’t imagine that going over very well. At best, they would probably be confused. At worst, they would think she was mocking them or something. Wasting their time.

She definitely wasn’t wasting my time. I couldn’t get enough of her.

We danced and sang until we were breathless, then headed back to the bar, where Annabelle was just wiping her hands on a rag. “Hey,” she said brightly. “You guys having fun out there?”

Audrey collapsed dramatically on a stool. “Water,” she requested, and her sister laughed, filling the order and then pulling a beer for me.

“Thanks,” I said, taking a healthy sip of it. I was hot and sweaty, but I felt stupidly alive, a grin on my face as I looked over at Audrey, who grinned right back at me.

“Ugh, get a room, you two,” Annabelle joked. She glanced over at her coworker. “Hey, I’m going to go on my break, okay?”

“Sure thing,” Mark said, nodding at her.

Annabell